Record hog slaughter in Iowa and southern Minnesota in 1937
The federal live stock market service reports 5,872,000 hogs marketed in Iowa and southern Minnesota in 1937, 17 percent below the 1931-37 average and 15 percent lighter than 1936, with finished top at 13 dollars in August and a mixed year for prices and receipts across twenty yards and ten plants. The Dec run totaled 941,700 hogs in the region, with direct market activity easing as supplies rose and consumer demand remained soft for fresh pork products.
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Federal Livestock Market News Service
Market News Service
Des Moines
Iowa
Minnesota
Chicago
New York
Fence Drift Amid Winter Country Graveyard Scene
Somber winter landscape recalls pioneers who settled this land as cedar fronds fringe a hillside graveyard. A drifting fence and rushing motorists frame the quiet tribute to those who did it well in snow and solitude.
Five Conference Dates Named For Rural Young Folk
Five district conferences for county rural young people's officers are set from January 11 to 15 with events in Malvern Storm Lake Waterloo and Ames. George M Strayer leads extension rural youth work with P C Taff Dr W H Stacy and Miss Fannie Buchanan on the staff. Drama training will be offered in Malvern and Ames led by Miss Zaneta Eager, with a Muscatine school on January 14. District elimination contests occur later in January. winners advance to the State Rural Young People's assembly February 11 and 12 in Ames.
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Ames
George M Strayer
Malvern
Storm Lake
Waterloo
Strayer
P. C. Taff
W. H. Stacy
Fannie R. Buchanan
Zaneta Eager
Muscatine
Rural Young People’s Assembly
Hog herd of forty destroyed by hog cholera
A farmer three miles northeast of the town lost his entire drove of forty hogs this week due to hog cholera. The hogs were reported to average about 200 pounds.
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the Gazette
Buckingham
Here
Winter moisture below normal in Iowa drought warners say
Federal meteorologist Charles D. Reed notes September to November rainfall averaged 3.31 inches, three months 3.53 inches below normal, with December 0.68 inch. The deficit threatens pastures and winter crops, though spring plant yields depend more on heat than moisture. Reed recalls 1936 and 1894 droughts, cites heating impact, and forecasts colder weather likely to come.
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John PD. Zug
Iowa Daily Press Association
Des Moines
Tiowans
Charles D. Reed
Towa
Reed
Iowa
Ames
Skunk
Corn and livestock auctions boost Wadena Stanwood sales
Corn sold for 59.1 cents a bushel at the T. A Ruggie farm auction south of Wadena along with oats at 37 cents a bushel. Cows sold 75 to 125 dollars, horses 100 dollars, sows 21 to 25 dollars, sale netted 4700 dollars. In Stanwood, fall pigs 7.25 to 8.70 per head, Hampshire sows over 40 dollars, cows 60 to 77, lambs six dollars, top teams 303.50 and 281. More than 1000 attended. North Liberty auction: corn 40 cents, oats 29 to 146 cents, colt 139 dollars, cows 40 to 54, pigs 4.70, hogs 15 to 16, ewes 8.25.
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Wadena
T. A Ruggie
J. H. Becker
Allamakee County
Stanwood
William Penningroth
Hampshire
Walt Challis
Lisbon
Carl Haesemeyer
Stanwood Bank
North Liberty
John Struzynski
Here
Lake MacBride
Winners named in corn and legume show at Olin
The Olin high school vocational agriculture department hosted corn and legume shows with Engelking winning the sweepstakes for ten ears from Rome township. Other top winners included Hale and Jackson townships, plus individual awards for soybeans timothy seed oats barley and hay. Also noted is Benton County Cow Test results with 280 cows in the association and Charles Will of Vinson leading the herd.
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Olin
Fritz Engelking
Vocational Agriculture Department
Olin High School
Engelking
Rome
Henry Biere
Hale Township
Louis Buckholtz
Jackson Township
Jones County
James Whitmore
Charles Brown
Rome Township
Lorenzen Brothers
John Holmes
Timothy
Oliver Furst
August Lactare
Alfred Pruess
Vinton
Benton County Cow Test Association
Edwin Phillips
Charles Will of
Vinson
Matt Birker
Three-time milking boosts production in Linn No 3 tests
In November and December William F. Voelker of Ryan led a Linn county Cow Test trial showing three daily milkings outperforming two. Of Voelker’s 15 purebred Holsteins, 12 were on three-a-day. December gains reached 41.8 butterfat from 28.3 in November for one cow, with other cows improving by 14.1 and 15.3 pounds respectively.
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the Gazette
Central City
William F. Voelker
Ryan
Linn County
Voelker
Linn No 3 Association
Otto W Bruns
M. M. Strait
Independence
Wapsie Valley
Glenn Gavin
W. J. Campbell
Campbell
Iowa Man Hired To Manage 5 000 Acre Georgia Plantation
Urbana Iowa man Joe Hotchkiss resigns as farm manager for Dr. Will Whities and Mrs Edith Albert of Iowa City after three years to oversee a 5000 acre livestock plantation near Cochran Georgia. He and his wife and children plan to move January 20 with duties starting February 1. Hotchkiss is a 1928 Iowa State College graduate with interests in soil conservation and hybrid seed corn production.
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Urbana
Joe Hotchkiss
Will Whities
Edith Albert
Iowa City
Cochran
Hotchkiss
Donald
Jerry
Iowa State College
Anti-Compulsion Farmers Meet Called At Red Oak
R M Moore of Montgomery county dirt farmer formed a voluntary anti compulsion farm bill group in Red Oak Iowa. He urged swift action to resist congressional bills he described as robbing farmers of human rights and called a mass meeting of southwestern Iowa farmers for Friday afternoon.
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RED Oak
MNS
Iowa
R. M. Moore
Montgomery County
Planners to Meet on State Farm Soil Policies
Agricultural planning committees from Clayton Fayette Winneshiek and Allamakee counties meet in Postville Tuesday morning to discuss state soil conservation district legislation farm tenancy and related federal activities.
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Postville
Clayton, Fayette
Winneshiek
Allamakee
Dr M C Larson buys Ames veterinary practice
Wilton Junction reports that Dr M C Larson of Ames has purchased the veterinary practice of the late Dr Henry Hell and plans to locate in the area on June 1.
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Hell
Wilton Junction
M. C. Larson
Ames
Henry Hell
Winners Named at Whittier Institute
Andy Lassen led the Whittier Institute competition with the best ten ears of open pollinated corn and the top single ear. George Joyce won best ten ears of hybrid corn, with Earl Bailey and Hubert Pollock in second and third. Hubert Pollock led second place in the single ear class. Ernest Kluber won first in regume hay, with Earl Bailey and Robert Pollock following. Arnold Hoge topped oats, Andy Lassen second, Floyd Hampton third, while George Joyce led best quart of timothy seed with Russell Joyce second and Donald Bedell third. Ernest Kluber displayed prize early potatoes, with Earl Bailey and Harley Grimes in second and third. Clarence Jacobsen exhibited best late potatoes, Russell Joyce placed second, and William Martin led the best collection of stored vegetables with Harley Grimes second and Albert Bedell third.
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Whittier
Andy Lassen
Whittier Institute
George Joyce
Earl Bailey
Hurbert Pollock
Clifford Knight
Floyd Hampton
Russell Joyce
Hubert Pollock
Ernest Kluber
Robert Pollock
Arnold Hoge
Peck
Timothy Seed
Donald Bedell
Harley Grimes
Clarence Jacobsen
William Martin
Albert Bedell
Frank Chvojka Elected Farm Union President
Frank Chvojka was elected president of the Farmers Union at a Voorhies meeting on Tuesday. Frank Karkosh was named vice president, Mrs. John Kubik secretary, and James Kubik treasurer.
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Voorhies
Frank Chvojka
Farmers Union
Frank Karkosh
John Kubik
James Kubik
Iowa Farm Bureaus press $5 dues request at Des Moines
Osage R M Hall chairs a committee of seven county Farm Bureaus seeking to have $4 of the $5 county dues redirected to state and national federations. The group plans to present the request to Iowa Farm Bureau delegates at the 1921 Des Moines convention. Seven of the fifteen $5 counties are represented. eight others approved by letter to reduce state dues.
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OSAGE
R. M. Hall
Mason City
Hall
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Des Moines
Iowa
Mitchell
Worth
Wright
Cerro Gordo
Floyd
Linn
Johnson
Receipts of Iowa Ag Department Up 9 Per Cent In 1937
Des Moines reports a 3 percent rise in Iowa Department of Agriculture receipts for 1937 totaling 596 021 dollars from 554 316 in 1936. Secretary Dr Thomas L Curran notes funds go to the general fund while department appropriations are 121 215, leaving the department 474 806 short of self support. Monthly figures show varied income through 1937 with December at 56 770 dollars.
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Des Moines
State Department of Agriculture
Thomas L. Curran
Farm Auction Dates For Anamosa And Marion Areas
Anamosa Livestock Auction set for Saturday January 8 with another sale on January 19 at L C Wieneke’s north east of Marion. Auctioneers invite local farmers to attend previews and bid on livestock and farm equipment.
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Anamosa Livestock Auction
L. C. Wieneke Auction
Marion
Officers Of Farm Bureau In Jones County Reelected
All officers of the Jones county Farm Bureau were reelected at the annual meeting. Names include William Mc Laughlin president Monticello H Dirks vice president Frank Andrews secretary C Grafft treasurer Mrs Bernard Cass home project chair man Mrs Harold Hartman Ana mosa girls 4 H club chair man Fred Kromminga Anamosa boys 4 H club chair man Glenn Sones named state voting director Ray Sanford alternate. Township directors and home project leaders listed with multiple townships and names.
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Olin
Jones County Farm Bureau
William McLaughlin
Monticello
H. Dirks
Center Junction
Frank Andrews
C., R. Grafft
Bernard Cass
Scotch Grove
Harold Hartman
Anamosa
Fred Kromminga
Jackson
M. D. Grafft
Lovell
Irving R. Hintz
Madison
Peter Sievers
Richland
William Balsiger
Rome
H D. Smith
Ray Naylor
Wayne
Ray Sanford
Wyoming
Frank Byerly
Gazette Lost and Found Ads Aid Hundreds of Pet and Item Losses
The Gazette runs a Lost and Found feature offering help to hundreds of people seeking missing pets and valuables. The advertisement promotes recovery assistance and public notices to reconnect owners with their belongings.
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Gazette
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